By Tim Murphy Religion News Service Washington – Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, who heads the nation’s largest Catholic archdiocese, on Monday (July 28) urged presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain to make immigration reform a top-level priority. In a keynote address to the National Migration Conference here, Mahony, whose archdiocese has swelled from…

Michele Chabin Religion News Service Jerusalem – An Israeli yeshiva student has apologized for removing a personal prayer that Sen. Barack Obama inserted into the Western Wall during a visit to Israel last week. “I’m sorry. It was a kind of prank,” the student, identified only by the Hebrew initial “Aleph,” told reporters Sunday (July…

Tim Murphy Religion News Service Washington – A church-state watchdog group has asked the Pentagon to investigate a Missouri Army base that sends trainees to a fundamentalist Baptist church on off days. Americans United for Separation of Church and State accused commanders at Ford Leonard Wood of supporting an event which the group says “promotes…

Associated Press Knoxville, Tennessee – An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal social policies, police said Monday. Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said a signed, four-page letter had been recovered from the SUV…

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